Question: I understand that we shouldn’t regret the past, but what should I do if I now find myself in a difficult situation because of mistakes that I made in the past? Does it mean that I don’t have to correct anything but hope for the Creator’s help instead?

Answer: Of course it is the Creator who has ruined everything and of course He is the one who will fix everything. You only have to ask, to thank Him for the fact that you see the corruptions He has caused, and to be thankful that you are asking Him to correct it now. After all, it says: “Everything is in the hands of the Creator, except for the fear of the Creator,” except for the fact that I see that I pin everything on Him. If He hasn’t corrected your state yet, it is a sign that you haven’t asked Him to do so or that your requests were incorrect; check them!

You are not a master of your past or future. You are in charge only of the present, the current moment—to the extent that you can choose between the path of Torah and the path of suffering, to ask the Creator to perform the correction on you—that is specifically on you!

You have to ask for such correction so as to cling to the upper governance with all your mind and heart, with all your being, with your entire consciousness, so as to not disappear in the current of life, but rather be in agreement with everything that happens and accept it in all your mind and heart, with all that you are.

But this doesn’t mean that you should simply sit and wait for the Light to do all the work. You have to perform many important actions in order to reach such serious thoughts, using all the means that you are given in this world. You will have to build this world, change society, make revolutions, manage in life, raise children, work, and worry about other people by bringing them closer to the Creator— a lot of different things.

Besides, you have to inspire the friends in the group to make sure that they have the best conditions for their study, development, and connection. You have to perform many actions, both physical and mental. But it is all in order to tie all the future moments to those of the past and the current ones with the only force acting in creation. This is our job, which is called the work of the Creator. He does everything and you justify everything that He does in all the vessels of your soul, in all your inner feelings.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/13, The Zohar

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Question: What is a typical fear of the Creator and how do we attain it?

Answer: Fear is the main thing. At the moment we have nothing but it. Even the love that we will feel later is based on fear at that moment. This can be fear for my life, the fear of wasting my life purposelessly, meaninglessly, and of ending it without any positive result. Such fear brings people to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and it is called “fear of this world and fear of the next world.”

Fear stems from the fact that we begin to think of what is external to ourselves and not about ourselves, and we can establish that fear only with the right environment. Because otherwise I may get confused and not understand whether I worry about how to delight the Creator and whether I am advancing towards it or not. But this is already fear regarding the action whose result is external to me: not in my pocket, not in my soul or my spirit, not in this world or in the next world, but rather somewhere external to me already, which means that it’s already connected to the act of bestowal.

In that case, I cannot be sure that my assessment is correct, and so I don’t exist in this world as one person but as surrounded by such an illusion that gives me the feeling that there are many other creatures: the still, vegetative, animate nature, and people. I have to accept all of them as parts of my soul. Unless I reach the fear that I worry about them more than I worry about myself, it means that I haven’t restricted my ego and I didn’t think about a certain action that resembles the Creator.

So we should first weigh, measure, and arrange our relations with the environment in our work. Only through the environment do we fulfill our freewill. The Creator is also in the environment. If I display the right attitude towards society, towards the friends, wider vessels open up for me as if I move to a more internal dimension, and there I reveal the connection with the Creator. One is inside the other (like hollow nesting dolls). This means that the connection with the Creator is revealed in the group. It’s impossible to discover Him any other way. Eventually I have to see how the whole world joins the mutual guarantee since it all belongs to me, it’s all mine.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/01/13, Shamati #38 “The Fear of God Is His Treasure”

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Question: How will it help me if I think that everything comes from one benevolent force, the Creator, if I am forced to struggle with each problem individually and deal with them separately?

Answer: If you fight every problem separately, you will never get your life in order! You will keep trying to defeat these alien forces: your boss at work, your wife, your neighbor, friends, and foes, the entire world, and you will waste all your life only to see that you resolve nothing.

Everyone will be disappointed here and very much so since we put ourselves at the mercy of thousands of reasons and people who are acting simply like robots! They are parts of our own souls, but since we haven’t attached them to ourselves correctly, we think they have their own power.

The instant you start connecting them to yourself and loving them “as you love yourself,” you will discover that they truly are like “yourself” and belong to you, and that beside them there is only one force that is at work and which arranges all this for you. And by themselves, they don’t exist and act independently.

The moment, you worry about various problems and can’t sleep, it is all because you can’t imagine yourself as a baby in the Creator’s arms. Feel how He is holding you in His arms, and you have nothing to worry about. The only thing worth worrying about is: When will I really perceive myself, unveil the Creator, and experience His love for me, which means becoming similar to Him and able to receive all this?

When the properties of love and bestowal emerge in you, you will feel how much He loves you. And if you yourself cannot love, how will you feel His love? If you hate everything that surrounds you, you will feel only hatred from everything and won’t stop suffering!

But if you could relate to everybody with love, you would feel only love that fills the entire world. It depends solely on your qualities, desires, Kelim.

So you have to, on one hand, keep calm since everything is in the hands of the Creator and “There is none else but Him,” “the good Who does good.” But on the other hand, “nobody will help me but me” to practically achieve the perception of “There is none else but Him.”

In fact, in order to feel this way, I need to have my attributes corrected and then I will be able to perceive what is really happening in reality. I am surrounded by the Light of the world of infinity, except that I don’t feel it! This is the only thing I should worry about, my properties (Kelim), in order to experience this infinity.

What else is there to worry about? Everything else is a mere illusion manifesting in my corrupted properties. And I worry about illusory problems that are painted by my corrupted senses; I am scared of shadows like a little child.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Unity of the friends is the place where I unveil the spiritual world. The moment when I will manage to connect all our desires together, I will see in this point of oneness an opening, the entrance that leads inside into the Upper world! It will suddenly expand and unfold, and through it, I will discover a new spiritual dimension, or desire.

And it is clear that around this point of entrance that has to open for me, there are a great many barriers. And they are not obstacles; on the contrary, they attempt to aim me at entering spirituality correctly, so it looks like they deliberately trip on me from every side.

But if I don’t despair and instead try to understand that it works as “help against me,” then I will pass through all the barriers and enter the spiritual world. The entrance to it will show up in this specific point.

At present, it seems difficult and impossible to us, but it will suddenly open so we will fly directly in! We won’t have to push and keep breaking through—it will simply pull us into itself.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/10/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: How should we prepare ourselves for the morning lesson now, after the congress?

Answer: We ask for the Light that is contained in the depth of our collective power, our common desire, to be revealed. We seek the revelation of the Light! I don’t know what the Surrounding Light is. The Surrounding, inner, outer, Nekudot (points representing vowels ), Taamim (flavors), I don’t know the difference between them; I only know that if we manage to reach unity between us in some small degree, we will be able to unveil the Light concealed within this unity.

Therefore, I apply pressure to our oneness as I see it in order to find the Light in it. What is the Light? It is the property of bestowal! I wish to have the property of bestowal revealed between us. There is a common desire where all desires are gathered in one, all our points in the hearts, and I wish to unveil the Light resting in it, the Light of oneness, mutual guarantee, and love.

I don’t assess the spiritual rungs in it yet but just wish to find spirituality, to uncover the Light, the mutual attribute of bestowal, the Creator, in order to delight Him. It is as if I have a little child and think about how to make him happy, what to buy him, what present to give him. I think and care about it. In the same way, I think about the Creator whom I wish to find in the connection between us; therefore, our unity is the place where I can reveal the Creator revealed and the state in which I can bring Him pleasure.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/10/10, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Sages say a person should speak no word without intention. This is described as “distance yourself from falsehood”. “Falsehood” means that you are led by your egoistic desire rather than the will to bestow. Therefore, all we ought to do is keep preparing ourselves for the morning lesson and constantly think about the Light that Reforms since it is the only thing we depend on!

Imagine that all of us are facing a death sentence. But there is a chance to be redeemed. You just discovered that there is some “Surrounding Light,” someone whose first name is Light and whose last name is Surrounding, and he can save your life. You keep thinking: “How do I talk to him? What do I bribe him with so that he changes my sentence?”

That is exactly the attitude you should have while preparing for the lesson.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/10, Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Preparation to the Lesson: Writings of Baal HaSulam “Igrot,” Letter 13

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The Light has spread from the world of infinity, having passed many restrictions, and reached the center point of all the worlds, in which all sanctity, that is, the force of bestowal, ends. In this manner, this material world emerges, as the imprint of the 10 Sefirot of the spiritual world. We can do material actions in this material world we live in. It is in our power, and it is said, “Do all that is in your power!” And intention comes only due to the Light that Reforms.

Therefore, if we want to reach correction, we must perform the actions indicated by Kabbalists, that is, to strive to love others, which is the basis of all corrections. Everything we do to achieve this fundamental rule is counted as correct actions as if they have the correct form. It is impossible to find fault with the form because we have tried to unite, to cancel ourselves before the friends, and to feel each other’s desires.

That is, we acted correctly; we just did not have the right intention! And to the extent that we wanted to change our intentions in these actions, the Surrounding Light that Reforms acted on us. The Light is only waiting to affect us and to correct our intention to bestowal.

Therefore, a person comes to the state of Lishma, to spiritual bestowal, only after a period of preparation in which he acts in Lo Lishma. In other words, his intentions are still egoistic, but he performs all possible actions from a desire to achieve a genuine intention to bestow.

So, we need to treat our actions very seriously—hold various events, lectures, discussions, roundtables, go out to the public at every opportunity—to perform all the actions that facilitate dissemination and unity. After all, by this we attract a very strong Light that Reforms, which advance us quickly.

Therefore, I again and again warn people who have the opportunity to participate in dissemination to the general public and they do not do that. They just do not allow themselves to perform the actions that could move them toward holiness, to the spiritual world, even though they do not yet have the proper intention. It is a pity to miss this wonderful opportunity!
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/08/13, Writings of Rabash

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Question: What should I do if during the lesson I am bombarded by extraneous thoughts and feelings that distract me from the lesson?

Answer: A person goes through many different states. Sometimes he sits in the lesson totally detached and sometimes he is even asleep. It happened to me very rarely, but if I suddenly fell asleep Rabash used to hit my leg gently under the table or to pull me by the sleeve without anyone noticing, although I wasn’t actually tired but in a special state of mind. Sometimes you can sleep two hours a night and feel that you are fully awake and sometimes after sleeping seven to eight hours,  you feel that you are craving sleep; it has nothing to do with your physical state.

What should you do when you fall asleep? You should make efforts to fight it as much as you can, as much as possible, but at the same time to agree that there are states that are arranged for us from above in which there is nothing we can do. So I come to the lesson and fall asleep. I have never mock or shout at someone who sleeps during the lesson. It means that this time he cannot do anything about it but he is still here.

If extraneous thoughts go through my mind during the lesson, it is due to my preparation. It is very important to understand on which foot you got out of bed: whether on the “right foot” or on the “left foot” or even “on all fours,” which refers to the first thought you had. It depends on what thought you went to sleep with, on what you read before you went to sleep. You can watch a football game, but you must read something during the last five minutes before you go to sleep. That will shake you a little from within and push you in the right direction. And with this thought you should fall asleep, as if in prayer.

Then you will wake up and get up with positive thoughts with which you will come to the lesson. Even if later you fall asleep during the lesson, you will have a good preparation. If you listen to the lesson, then even better thoughts and intentions will come to you. Even if you have other thoughts and intentions, they will come for only a moment and you will be able to immediately recognize them and drive them away.

This is our work. But the main thing is still the action: to come, sit, and get ready for the lesson, to draw the drawings and to write down everything, which means to perform mechanical actions that help me connect to the lesson. Besides, you have to draw a circle, which means to imagine that you are in the group. You can even draw a circle on a sheet of paper, so that it will be in front of you and remind you that you are in a circle with all the others.

This form of a circle should be carved in your brain so that you will want to see the world only through it. It is as if you have special glasses in your mind and now you see that the world is round. It is because this is actually its true form and you want to see everything through the center of the group.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/07/13, The Zohar

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Question: In the spiritual system, the upper level waits until the lower level raises a prayer to it, MAN. How can I convey the requests of the public upward if I have no contact with the spiritual world?

Answer: You have contact with the spiritual world through your point in the heart. You only lack the deficiency to awaken the upper, and it is from the lower that you have to receive this deficiency.

You have Reshimot (spiritual genes) which belong to GE. The lower, the public, have no GE; they have no points in the heart. You include the deficiencies of the people in your AHP, since they want to be saved from trouble. These deficiencies and needs are ordinary corporeal matters: food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, which are added to your GE, to the point in the heart. Since you have committed yourself to the public, you are under their pressure.

Instead of demonstrating and protesting in front of the parliament, they will protest in front of your house and smash your windows. When you see your frightened children and your upset wife, you will have no choice but to cry to the Creator for help. You have to reach this pressure in order to be ready for a prayer.

The Creator will respond only if you ask Him for power for the lower, for the people, to provide them with what they need. It is because they will receive what they need only if they “round up” and connect in a circle, in the workshops, at the roundtables, through integral education.

They will not receive filling just like that and it isn’t that everyone will receive a package by special delivery, but their lives will improve. We have to organize the public in circles for workshops and roundtable discussions. The main thing is to organize in a circle. When people organize in a circle and annul themselves before you, they can enter and be incorporated in your AHP and convey their complaints and their deficiencies to you.

You raise these deficiencies to your point in the heart that is also in the circle, in the center of the group. By that your work is over since the center of the group is your upper and the uppermost part of the public. In the center there is mutual guarantee, bestowal, and connection, as one man in which the Creator is revealed!

This whole structure is a total of ten complete Sefirot. Only one thing is missing: receiving an urge from the public that will force you to feel scared, to fear, and to feel that you are committed to bring them the Light that Reforms from the center of the group. So going out to disseminate to the public is essential for our ascent.

People ask for food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge. You are asking for connection, mutual guarantee, and the revelation of the Creator. If you can keep the right deficiency for the center of the group and the Creator, by fine tuning the correct deficiencies each time so that it wouldn’t be just bestowal and connection but will take on a more accurate form that is suitable for the next spiritual level, then there will be no need to pressure you from below and to shatter your windows.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/6/13, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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